Android has had a similar feature for some time. Android M introduces a new Manifest option to declare if an app uses
clear text traffic or not. Deepening on this option the framework can deny clear text traffic from the app. A decent writeup on this topic is here: Android M and the war on clear text traffic.

Defcon RFIDiggity: Pentester Guide to Hacking HF/NFC and UHF RFID by Francis Brown and Shubham Shah; How to Shot Web: Web and mobile hacking in 2015 by Jason Haddix; LTE Recon and Tracking with RTLSDR by Ian Kline; Extracting the Painful (blue)tooth by Matteo Beccaro and Matteo Collura; Stagefright: Scary Code in the Heart of Android by Joshua J Drake; Build a free cellular traffic capture tool with a vxworks based femoto by Yuwei Zheng and Haoqi Shan

This year Black Hat US really has a large number of mobile related talks!

There is not too much to talk about otherwise. I still have to read all the stuff about Android M, some stuff is covered in the links section below. Make sure to checkout some of the HITB Amsterdam 2015 slides. Some good stuff in there for us mobile sec people.

I was really amazed how much publicity the iOS messaging crash got. Yes, it was easy to trigger. But yes, this kind of stuff happened before.